Welcome to your March/February 2026 RI DSA Field Notes. Here’s how we’ve been organizing and building power in the Ocean State over the past couple months.
Spotlight: Brittany Kubicek Campaign Launch
On Monday, March 2nd, RI DSA organizer Brittany Kubicek announced her campaign for Rhode Island House District 5. Running as a proud independent socialist, Brittany’s platform includes:
A statewide rent freeze and affordable public owned housing
A $30 minimum wage
Comprehensive plans for publicly owned, clean energy sources
High quality, free public education for all from pre-K to college.
Since 2023, Rhode Island DSA has fought for working-class power outside the Democratic Party. Brittany’s campaign marks our chapter’s first electoral intervention to organize the working class toward building a socialist party.
Her opponent, Representative Anthony DeSimone, has been conspicuously absent from the affordable housing crisis affecting the 5th district. Brittany, on the other hand, intends to take on these and other issues by uniting the people against the ruling class: “Workers built this state, and now it’s time for us to run it.”
News and Events Roundup
On Valentine's Day, Rhode Island DSA members participated in “The Rally Against Fascism: A Love Letter to Tomorrow." Organizers included the Industrial Workers of the World, RI DSA, and the Providence General Assembly among others. Musicians and speakers gathered around the theme of community love being a tool in the fight against fascism. RI DSA co-chair Jordan Garces spoke about the event being a “space for us to heal together and build the solidarity to keep pushing forward.”
RI Healthcare Update
As our community hospitals go bankrupt and are sold to out-of-state buyers, now is the time to fight for a socialist alternative. Roger Williams Medical Center and Fatima Hospital are swapping owners to the Centurion Foundation – another example of so-called nonprofits exploiting our communities. If our political leaders were so confident in selling the hospitals to Centurion, they would not need to hand them $18 million in RI taxpayer money. This only reinforces the need for democratic, worker-run hospitals, where those in need have universal access and care is free at the point of service. Rhode Island DSA is organizing healthcare workers and community members to fight back against corporate ownership, protect our hospitals, and win healthcare as a human right.
Over the past few weeks we also saw the US launch another unnecessary and deadly assault on another country. These blatant acts of aggression, like the bombing of a girl’s elementary school in Iran, threaten to draw the whole region, as well as the US, into a widescale war. RI DSA joined several protests to condemn the US and Israeli bombing of Iran and stands in solidarity with the Iranian working class as they resist these brutal imperialist attacks. We continue to call upon all workers to unite in opposition to US and Israeli terror.
Closing
Ready to join our fight against the ruling class and build worker power across the state? Check out our events page here for more information on how to plug in to RI DSA.